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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 articulate | (v.; adj.) expressed with clarity; skillful with words |
| artifice | (n.) skill in a craft |
| ascetic | (n.; adj.) one who leads a simple life of self-denial; rigorously |
| aseptic | (adj.) germ free |
| askance | (adv.) a sideways glance of disapproval |
| asperity | (n.) harshness |
| aspersion | (n.) slanderous statement; a damaging or derogatory criticism |
| aspirant | (n.) a person who goes after high goals |
| assay | (v.) to determine the quality of a substance. |
| assiduous | (adj.) carefully attentive; industrious |
| assuage | (v.) to relieve; ease; make less severe |
| astringent | (n.; adj.) a substance that contracts bodily tissues; causing contraction; |
| atrophy | (v.; n.) to waste away, as from lack of use; to wither; failure to grow |
| attenuate | (v.) to thin out; to weaken |
| atypical | (adj.) something that is abnormal |
| audacious | (adj.) fearless; bold |
| august | (adj.) to be imposing or magnificent |
| auspicious | (adj.) being of a good omen; successful |
| austere | (adj.) having a stern look; having strict self-discipline |
| authentic | (adj.) real; genuine; trustworthy |
| authoritarian | (n.; adj.) acting as a dictator; demanding obedience |
| autocracy | (n.) an absolute monarchy; government where one person holds |
| autocrat | (n.) an absolute ruler |
| avarice | (n.) inordinate desire for gaining and possessing wealth |
| aver | (v.) to affirm as true |
| awry | (adj; adv.) crooked(ly); uneven(ly); wrong; askew |
| azure | (adj.) the clear blue color of the sky |
| baleful | (adj.) harmful, malign, detrimental |
| banal | (adj.) trite; without freshness or originality |
| baneful | (adj.) deadly or causing distress, death |
| baroque | (adj.) extravagant; ornate; embellished |
| bastion | (n.) a fortified place or strong defense |
| batten | (v.) to gain |
| bauble | (n.) a showy yet useless thing |
| beget | (v.) to bring into being |
| beholden | (adj.) indebted to |
| behoove | (v.) to be advantageous; to be necessary |
| bellicose | (adj.) quarrelsome; warlike |
| bemuse | (v.) to preoccupy in thought |
| beneficent | (adj.) conferring benefits; kindly; doing good |
| benign | (adj.) mild; harmless |
| berate | (v.) scold; reprove; reproach; criticize |
| bereft | (v.; adj.) to be deprived of; to be in a sad manner; hurt by someone's death |
| beseech | (v.) to ask earnestly |
| besmirch | (v.) to dirty or discolor |
| bestial | (adj.) having the qualities of a beast; brutal |
| betroth | (v.) to promise or pledge in marriage |
| biennial | (adj.; n.) happening every two years; a plant which blooms every two years |
| bilateral | (adj.) pertaining to or affecting both sides or two sides; having two sides |
| blasphemous | (adj.) irreligious; away from acceptable standards; speaking ill of using |
| blatant | (adj.) obvious; unmistakable; crude; vulgar |
| blighted | (adj.) causing frustration or destruction |
| blithe | (adj.) happy; cheery; merry; a cheerful |
| bode | (v.) to foretell something |
| bombast | (n.) pompous speech; pretentious words |
| bombastic | (adj.) pompous; wordy; turgid |
| boor | (n.) a rude person |
| breadth | (n.) the distance from one side to another |
| brevity | (n.) briefness; shortness |
| brindled | (adj.) mixed with a darker color |
| broach | (v.) to introduce into conversation |
| brusque | (adj.) abrupt in manner or speech |
| bucolic | (adj.) having to do with shepherds or the country |
| bumptious | (adj.) arrogant |
| bungler | (n.) a clumsy person |
| burgeon | (v.) to grow or develop quickly |
| burlesque | (v.; n.) to imitate in a non-serious manner; a comical imitation |
| burly | (adj.) strong; bulky; stocky |
| burnish | (v.) to polish by rubbing |
| cabal | (n.) a group of persons joined by a secret |
| cache | (n.) stockpile; store; heap; hiding place for goods |
| cacophonous | (adj.) sounding jarring |
| cacophony | (n.) a harsh, inharmonious collection of sounds; dissonance |
| cajole | (v.) to coax with insincere talk |
| calamity | (n.) disaster |
| callow | (adj.) being young or immature |
| caliber | (n.) quality |
| calumny | (n.) slander |
| canard | (n.) a false statement or rumor |
| cant | (n.) insincere or hypocritical statements of high ideals; the jargon of a particular group or occupations |
| caprice | (n.) a sudden, unpredictable or whimsical change |
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